[DM-MUG] Repair boot drive.

[Jon Thompson]

First, Suitcase conflicting with Adobe cannot directly cause  
corruption of your hard drive. Both Suitcase and Adobe work on the  
file level, which means that they can corrupt a file, but they rely on  
the underlying operating system for finding the file and providing it  
to them. If there is corruption of the hard disk, it is that  
underlying level or hardware-based.

Next, checking the disk, rather than repairing, will not modify it,  
therefore is a safe way to tell you if it is corrupt. If it is  
corrupt, it is relatively safe to run Apple's repair utility in repair  
mode. If so, keep running it until either you end up with no errors,  
or you end up in a loop where repairing one error causes the other and  
vice versa.

If the latter is true, get a copy of Alsoft Diskwarrior. It is much  
better at fixing disk corruption than anything else out there.

Applejack (mentioned elsewhere in this thread) automates all of the  
Apple provided repairs, but is useless if you don't already have it  
installed.

Finally, what you might have is a corrupt system. There are several  
levels that could be the culprit here, anywhere from a corrupt user  
(most likely a preference file) to the actual system is corrupt.  
Depending on where it is, an archive and install may or may not solve  
your issue.

My guess is that you've disabled the wrong font, which the system  
needs to run. I haven't used Suitcase in a long while, but recall that  
they give rather strong warnings before you disable system fonts. Did  
you do so? If so, you may have put your system in a state where you  
either need to call someone to put the files back or do an Archive and  
Install. The reason I say call someone is because I am not certain of  
the particulars of which fonts are missing and where Suitcase moves  
them to disable them. Otherwise, I could tell you what commands to  
enter in Single User Mode.


On Oct 12, 2009, at 5:12 PM, AB wrote:

> My HDD seems to need repaired. I'm pretty sure this is due to my  
> font management library, Suitcase fusion conflicting for whatever  
> reason with Adobe suite.
>
> To my understanding if I follow the directions found here.
> http://macs.suite101.com/article.cfm/when_macs_crash
>
> it won't erase the current or existing applications and files? Am I  
> mistaken? I've only done complete installs and upgrades with Macs.  
> On Windows I know there's a repair option and performed such on  
> countless occasions.
>
> I know I should back up files before performing maintenance.  
> However, my present budget doesn't allow me to make any unexpected  
> purchases right now and the backup would be to large to manually  
> break down to be backed up on discs as I don't have enough to do so.  
> And the system needing repairs is 10.4.11 which means it does not  
> have the Time Machine.capabilities.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
> -A.
>
>
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